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World premiere of The Creatures of Prometheus/The Creatures of Capucci at the Spoleto Festival in Italy

4 July 2020 by gramilano Leave a Comment

Beethoven and haute couture – not the first pairing that comes to mind.

Le Creature di Prometeo/Le creature di Capucci (The Creatures of Prometheus/The Creatures of Capucci) celebrates this surprising coupling. Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and the Festival of Two Worlds are co-producers of this semi-staged concert which receives its world premiere at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto on 28 August 2020 with a preview on 1 August at the Nervi International Festival of Music and Ballet near Genoa.

Dance in Italy – Spoleto Festival’s Dance Gala with Abbagnato, Vogel, Frola, Dato and many more on 30 June

25 June 2019 by gramilano Leave a Comment

There are many, many Italian dancers scattered around companies throughout the world. Some are in the corps de ballet, others are principal dancers, but all continue the tradition that made Italian dancers some of the most famous of all. Even leaving the men aside, we have Pierina Legnani (noted as ‘maybe’ being the first to […]

Mikhail Baryshnikov: Time is cruel

14 August 2015 by gramilano 1 Comment

After the success of Letter to a Man at the Spoleto Festival in July, Mikhail Baryshnikov will resume his role as Nijinsky on 11 September for a two-week run in Milan. Once again, he is collaborating with Bob Wilson. There is a lot of movement, a body language. Physically it’s more demanding than other works […]

Baryshnikov and Bob Wilson take on Nijinsky in Milan: Letter to a Man

25 March 2015 by gramilano 5 Comments

Mikhail Baryshnikov and Bob Wilson have been in Milan rehearsing their new project: Letter to a Man, inspired by the diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky, The diaries were written in six months in 1919 – says Baryshnikov – at the height of his breakdown… he wasn’t even thirty. It is a document of suffering from an […]

Amici della Scala celebrates Lila de Nobili with Frigerio, Fracci, Bruson and …

1 December 2014 by gramilano 1 Comment

The annual presentation of the latest additions to the series of books produced by the Amici della Scala (Friends of La Scala) is quite an event. It is held in the grand foyer on the first floor of Teatro alla Scala with the sovrintendente of the theatre, the unstoppable Anna Crespi who founded the association […]

Alessandra Ferri’s women: Cherì, Duse and Woolf… and heading La Scala?

23 May 2014 by gramilano Leave a Comment

Alessandra Ferri brings Martha Clarke’s Chéri to the Ravenna Festival in two weeks, with the same cast that accompanied her for the piece’s début at The Signature Theatre in New York: ABT’s Herman Cornejo and actress Amy Irving. Although Charles Isherwood for The New York Times said that Clarke’s choreography “sometimes falls into patterns of swooning sameness”, of Ferri […]

Alessandra Ferri’s classy comeback

6 June 2013 by gramilano 2 Comments

There are comebacks and comebacks: the rather sad, end-of-the-pier affair, because money’s run out and there’s alimony to pay; the small cameo ‘because I miss the applause’; and Alessandra Ferri. Ferri’s various comeback projects are classy with a piece being created for her by Martha Clarke based on Colette’s novel Cherì with ABT’s Herman Cornejo, a new ballet about Eleonora […]

Mikhail Baryshnikov helps achieve the dream of Russian poet Josef Brodsky

3 June 2013 by gramilano Leave a Comment

Nobel prize-winning poet Josef Brodsky and ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov were good friends. Really good friends. Brodsky hated calling Baryshnikov ‘Mikhail’ or ‘Misha’ so he called him ‘Mysh’: mouse! He called himself Josef the Cat, adding in a little miaow afterwards This is how the pair always referred to each each. They met in 1974 in New York where the twenty-year-old […]

Alessandra Ferri returns to the stage after 6 years

11 February 2013 by gramilano 1 Comment

After hanging up her pointe shoes in 2007, Alessandra Ferri has announced her return to the stage. At 49 she has decided to début in a new work, The Piano Upstairs, at the Spoleto Festival on 28 June. When asked by Il Corriere della Sera if she missed the applause, she replied that yes, the applause […]

Spoleto Festival USA reveals 2012 season: Glass, k.d. lang and Dublin’s Gate Theatre

3 January 2012 by gramilano Leave a Comment

The American première of the Philip Glass opera “Kepler,” a concert by vocalist k.d. lang, and the return of Dublin’s Gate Theatre highlight the 36th season of the Spoleto Festival USA this spring, says The Boston Globe. Chamber music, acrobatic performances and orchestral concerts are also on the schedule for the festival that will light up 13 […]